One great way that I have found to improve your English Listening skills is to watch TV or Movies in English. Theatres with Version Original movies in Madrid are not the norm as a matter of fact ironically there are not that many with all the interest there is in learning English you would think there would be more. Considering all my students claim that countries that don't voice over their media speak a lot more English than Spain, yet when I assign them to watch at least :30 minutes in V.O. they moan and groan because the subtitles available are in Spanish.
So I tried to find other venues where my students could watch original version series with English subtitles. I
found that many Youtube videos of American TV series have the option for subtitles, others have the text available and yet others are available with Closed Caption. You have to be careful with the Closed Caption because sometimes the translation is way off, but a lot of them are pretty accurate.
Do a search for their favorite American series on Youtube like "Big Bang Theory with subtitles in English" the search will list some with the following: CC for Closed Captions, but others will have subtitles and not have the CC icon. The other option some of these videos have is Interactive Transcript which has all the story text in a small window.
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